The gale howled and scuffled about gigantically in the darkness, as though the entire world were one black gully.

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Douglass rose up from a slave to become one of the most famous black men in the world.

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His cause was peace not a bad cause, but Ford pursued it with his usual black-and-white view of the world. (Every question had only one possible point of view: his own.) In December 1915 he chartered a ship to Europe to persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms.

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